NAME
Net::SMTP::TLS::ButMaintained - An SMTP client supporting TLS and AUTH
(DEPRECATED, use Net::SMTPS instead)
VERSION
version 0.24
SYNOPSIS
use Net::SMTP::TLS::ButMaintained;
my $mailer = Net::SMTP::TLS::ButMaintained->new(
'your.mail.host',
Hello => 'some.host.name',
Port => 25, #redundant
User => 'emailguy',
Password=> 's3cr3t');
$mailer->mail('emailguy@your.mail.host');
$mailer->to('someonecool@somewhere.else');
$mailer->data;
$mailer->datasend("Sent thru TLS!");
$mailer->dataend;
$mailer->quit;
DESCRIPTION
DEPRECATED!, Please use Net::SMTPS instead.
Net::SMTP::TLS::ButMaintained is forked from Net::SMTP::TLS. blame "Evan
Carroll" for the idea. :)
Net::SMTP::TLS::ButMaintained is a TLS and AUTH capable SMTP client
which offers an interface that users will find familiar from Net::SMTP.
Net::SMTP::TLS::ButMaintained implements a subset of the methods
provided by that module, but certainly not (yet) a complete mirror image
of that API.
The methods supported by Net::SMTP::TLS::ButMaintained are used in the
above example. Though self explanatory for the most part, please see the
perldoc for Net::SMTP if you are unclear.
The differences in the methods provided are as follows:
The *mail* method does not take the options list taken by Net::SMTP
The *to* method also does not take options, and is the only method
available to set the recipient (unlike the many synonyms provided by
Net::SMTP).
The constructor takes a limited number of Net::SMTP's parameters.
The constructor for Net::SMTP::TLS::ButMaintained takes the
following (in addition to the hostname of the mail server, which
must be the first parameter and is not explicitly named):
NoTLS - In the unlikely event that you need to use this class to
perform non-TLS SMTP (you ought to be using Net::SMTP itself for
that...), this will turn off TLS when supplied with a true
value. This will most often cause an error related to
authentication when used on a server that requires TLS
Hello - hostname used in the EHLO command
Port - port to connect to the SMTP service (defaults to 25)
Timeout - Timeout for inital socket connection (defaults to 5,
passed directly to IO::Socket::INET)
User - username for SMTP AUTH
Password - password for SMTP AUTH
TLS and AUTHentication
During construction of an Net::SMTP::TLS::ButMaintained instance, the
full login process will occur. This involves first sending EHLO to the
server, then initiating a TLS session through STARTTLS. Once this is
complete, the module will attempt to login using the credentials
supplied by the constructor, if such credentials have been supplied.
The AUTH method will depend on the features returned by the server after
the EHLO command. Based on that, CRAM-MD5 will be used if available,
followed by LOGIN, followed by PLAIN. Please note that LOGIN is the only
method of authentication that has been tested. CRAM-MD5 and PLAIN login
functionality was taken directly from the script mentioned in the
acknowledgements section, however, I have not tested them personally.
ERROR HANDLING
This module will croak in the event of an SMTP error. Should you wish to
handle this gracefully in your application, you may wrap your mail
transmission in an eval {} block and check $@ afterward.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This code was blatantly plagiarized from Michal Ludvig's smtp-client.pl
script. See for his excellent
work.
Improvements courtesy of Tomek Zielinski
AUTHORS
* Alexander Christian Westholm
* Fayland Lam
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2011 by Alexander Christian Westholm,
Fayland Lam.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.